Quotes from Merce Cunningham

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

My process has changed over the years. I'd say it has been enhanced.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

The only way to do it is to do it.

Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.